[Rockhounds] Southern California Locations

[Hilmar Krocke]

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On 2007-Oct-05, at  1426, Jim Nance wrote:

> I will be in southern California in November for site seeing and rock
> collecting.
> Can anyone give me current information on thefollowing sites:
>  Owlhead Mountains smoky quartz
>  Big Pine smoky quartz
> Lone Pine amazonite & beryl
> Opal Mountain
>
> Thanks
> Jim Nance
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I have just returned from a trip to S California. To the annual Gem-o- 
rama on Searles Lake.
What a hoot !
Checked the Big Pine location. Nothing. It has been plundered.
It is obvious that at some time there were lots and big crystals but  
they are all gone now.
You would have to dig inside that hill of granite to find more.
At Lone Pine I was able to dig out some very nice Amazonite crystals  
from a narrow cleft filled with muck.
Will be difficult to get out more. According to information from a  
local there is more Amazonite
inside granite boulders on Haystack rock and the saddle behind it.
Also found a few little beryl crystals. There are probably more and  
better but I did not have much time to spend.
Watch out for the rattle snakes !

       Hilmar



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